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With those words, Coun. Phil Squire launched a meeting Monday evening to update Ward 6 residents on a number of issues: renaming local bridges to honour musical figures from London’s past, neighbourhood engagement and Middlesex-London Health Unit efforts to curb the city’s ongoing drug crisis.

Before the meeting kicked off, Squire addressed the last item on the agenda — council’s $500-million Bus Rapid Transit plan — in a brief interview.

“My constituents are very concerned,” Squire said of how BRT will affect traffic lanes on Richmond Street. Only two councillors, one of them Squire, voted against moving ahead with the transit plan championed by Mayor Matt Brown.

“Nobody has explained to me satisfactorily how it’s going to work,” Squire said.

The first delegation to address the meeting included board members of the Jack Richardson London Music Hall of Fame, who are trying to build up “critical mass” by gathering public support for a campaign to rename three London bridges.

“We’d like to see those bridges named in honour of Garth Hudson and Priscilla Wright,” said former Free Press music columnist James Reaney, indicating the side-by-side spans on Richmond Street that cross the Thames River.

Hudson was a member of The Band and Wright a 1950s recording star. The group also would like the Queen’s Avenue Bridge renamed in Richardson’s honour.